It is very natural for a young friend and a young lover to think the persons they love have nothing to do but to please them.

There is but one way I know of conversing safely with all men; that is, not by concealing what we say or do, but by saying or doing nothing that deserves to be concealed.

The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.

Men, some to business, some to pleasure take; But every woman is at heart a rake.

There are certain times when most people are in a disposition of being informed, and 'tis incredible what a vast good a little truth might do, spoken in such seasons.

Oh, blindness to the future! kindly giv'n, That each may fill the circle mark'd by heaven.

Wise wretch! with pleasures too refined to please, With too much spirit to be e'er at ease, With too much quickness ever to be taught, With too much thinking to have common thought: You purchase pain with all that joy can give, And die of nothing but a rage to live.